back to UTF-8. The output_filter will be passed all the output from the child process. The input_filter will be passed all the keyboard input from the user. The input_filter is run BEFORE the check for the escape_character. Note that if you change the window size of the parent the SIGWINCH signal will not be passed through to the child. If you want the child window size to change when the parent's window size changes then do something like the following example:: import pexpect, struct, fcntl, termios, signal, sys def sigwinch_passthrough (sig, data): s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0) a = struct.unpack('hhhh', fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(), termios.TIOCGWINSZ , s)) if not p.closed: p.setwinsize(a[0],a[1]) # Note this 'p' is global and used in sigwinch_passthrough. p = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash') signal.signal(signal.SIGWINCH, sigwinch_passthrough) p.interact() Nz